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Luis de Léon (1527–1591)
Léon, Luis, Ponce de (pōn’thā dā lā-ōn’). A Spanish lyric poet; born at Granada, 1527; died at Madrigal, 1591. He entered the order of Augustin Friars, 1544, and in 1561 became professor of theology in the University of Salamanca. He suffered five years’ imprisonment, by sentence of the Court of Inquisition, for his translation of the ‘Song of Songs,’ into Spanish, with commentary. Among his prose writings is a treatise on the ‘Names of Christ’ (1583) and ‘The Perfect Wife’ (1583); both books are still in popular use in Spain. His poems are almost exclusively of a religious character.